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review 2015-11-19 00:00

The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future

The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven...

Great collection of writings that imagine the world as a feminist utopia in the distant and not-so-distant future. This collection approaches the idea of a feminist utopia from a wide range of perspectives, taking up and challenging today's status quo from a number of angles. It's a mix of fiction, letters of a sort, essays of a sort, and interviews, with some illustration in the mix for good measure. I definitely recommend it for a burgeoning feminist or anyone who needs to expand their view of what feminism really entails.

text 2015-10-13 15:53

The Feminist Utopia Project

Grey Warden — feeling cool

Hadn't even heard of this one before. Redoubtable author and all around good person Jenny Trout tweeted about it this morning, and it immediately piqued my interest.

In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge voices, including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, Sheila Heti, and Mia McKenzie, invite us to imagine a truly feminist world. An abortion provider reinvents birth control, Sheila Bapat envisions an economy that values domestic work, a teenage rock band dreams up a new way to make music, Katherine Cross rewrites the Constitution, and Maya Dusenbery resets the standard for good sex. Combining essays, interviews, poetry, illustrations, and short stories, The Feminist Utopia Project challenges the status quo that accepts inequality and violence as a given—and inspires us to demand a radically better future.

Buy at Amazon, Feminist Press or at a local bookstore near you.

Over fifty contributors... FIFTY!!! Who does that anymore?